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Teaching and learning in the crucible: Actors with disabilities as experts preparing pre-service teachers to be inclusive educators
Dorothy Heathcote understood teaching and learning to take place in a kind of ‘crucible’ in which participants, who are both teachers and learners, contribute to the mix sometimes resulting in a radical transformation. This paper reports the ways Heathcote’s ideas have influenced both research and practice in the Teaching for Diversity workshop - a drama workshop that brings together pre-service teachers, teacher educators and actors from Fusion Theatre, a community-based theatre company for people with intellectual disabilities.
In a reversal of the usual relationship, actors with disabilities are positioned as experts leading student teachers and lecturers in the drama workshop. This paper describes their transformation through a kind of mantle of the expert – the expert in the antechamber. Within this space all participants, as if in Heathcote’s crucible, are stirred into new understandings and pre-service teachers are challenged into new ways of thinking about disability and inclusive education.
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Drama Research: International journal of drama researchVolume
5Issue
1Pagination
1 - 19Publisher
National Drama PublicationsLocation
London, EnglandISSN
2040-2228Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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